[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by nipper

As a very hard working government employee (trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice), an employee who took a huge pay cut in moving from private practice to the DOJ to do something for my country, I am a bit offended by the comments about good for nothing government employees. Sure, there are some inefficiencies, but I think we could make some immediate progress if we began phasing out our spending of 10 billion $ per month in Iraq, and diverting some of the $ and troops to Afghanistan where they are really needed for national security purposes.

I apoligize if you took my comments the wrong way. I was not aiming them at all government employees, but rather the ones who have the work ethic of "It's a government job, why work?". There are still quite a few government employees who do a good service, and MOST of the good ones are the underpaid underappreciated ones. Why does a teacher make such SH!TTY wages for molding our future, when we have have people in ALL departments of government working 15 hours a week or less making $300K+ a year? And I have long said that unions will be the downfall of this country. They were established for a very good purpose and were infact needed at one time, but there main purpose has been satisfied so they have found other ways to be needed. If it wasn't for the mess the unions have created, other countries wouldn't be such a large power now since we would still have most all of our plants here instead of abroad. Unfortunately the mess were in trickles down to everybody, but the public is the only ones that can change it.